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U of A ice core research to reveal ancient climate history

Researchers at the Canadian Ice Core Lab (CICL), located at the University of Alberta, recently drilled a 613 metre ice core from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut earlier this year. Alison Criscitello, assistant professor at the U of A and director of CICL, studies ice cores to better understand the environment…

Notes from Council: 2025–26 executive goals presented

Office of the Dean of Students renamed to Student Success and Experience

Malnutrition overlooked in obesity and osteoarthritis patients, U of A researchers find

U of A researchers identify DNA structures that can improve cancer treatments

Editorial: Students’ Council retreats from transparency in the name of safety

During the council meeting on July 15, the University of Alberta Students’ Union (UASU) Student’s Council voted to stop publicly disclosing how individual councillors vote. The motion passed, though with some opposition, but its implications are anything but small. For a body that represents over 37,000 students, this is not…

Global duty and domestic strain: Canada’s $4.3 billion pledge

Report Card: Bill Flanagan 2025

The GSA has been collectively bullying an Indigenous associate vice-president (labour)

‘The Long Term Podcast’: Trying to spark open conversations and authenticity

Adven Villa is a fourth-year University of Alberta student who created, and hosts The Long Term Podcast. The podcast has students from the U of A and MacEwan University on to chat about their struggles, hopes, and inspirations. The Long Term Podcast was started a year and a half ago…

Photostory: Whyte Avenue Art Walk 2025

Album Review: ‘Guitar’ by Mac DeMarco

Social Intercourse: August 13

Las Cafeteras, a Zapatista-inspired band, speaks on upbringings

Diminishing third places and the students working to revive them

Third places are community hubs, separate from home and work, that allow for social interaction and leisure. Common examples include libraries, gyms, and cafes. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg first coined the term. In his essay, “Our Vanishing Third Places,” Oldenburg argued that “what suburbia cries for are the means for people…

Harm reduction on campus: Students pushing for more

The Greenhouse Effect: The potential for positive byproducts from the campus greenhouse

Understanding Reconciliation through FOOD!

The link between dietary restrictions and food insecurity